Order No. 12 of the Committee on Forestry and Hunting validating the Regulation on transfer of unforested land to forested land within state forest fund.

This Order establishes that transfer of unforested land to forested land within state forest fund shall be carried out by public forest owner in accordance with the modalities set by this Governmental Order. Felling areas, burnt forest areas, grassy glades and areas of dead vegetation shall be subject to transfer to forested land category after afforestation and reforestation arrangements or natural afforestation and reforestation. Transfer shall be carried out after inspection of the areas by the officials of the authorized forestry institution. Assessment of the state of natural afforestation of coniferous and broad-leaved forest species shall be carried out in accordance with scale set by normative legal acts regulating the issues of timber extraction. Annex 1 contains the scale of normative assessment indices of forest species subject to transfer to forested land.